Classic Birthday

I was in need of a masculine birthday card this week.  I've also started to try to use some sets that either have never been used or have been used only a couple of times.  This Classic car set is one of those unloved sets and it coincidentally works perfectly for a masculine card.

 The little tag pulls out to show the birthday greeting:

The designs for this card actually started with that little tag.  It was in my bits and pieces stash along with the bit of dotted brown ribbon.  I decided to use a monochromatic color scheme based on some scraps of paper I found.  All of the paper other than the tag are from the same pack.  The larger panel on the right was a little to plain for what I wanted, so I dressed it up a bit with a grid background stamp stamped with Antique Linen distress ink.  I then stamped two other cars from the set on top of the grid, but as I stamped them off on scrap paper first, it is very subtle and you can't really see it in the picture.  I finished it off by stamping a grungy dot pattern in random places and then sponged all the edges of the papers with the same Antique Linen ink.  A few eyelets to finish everything off.

Supplies:
Stamps: Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps "Classic Dad"; Simon Says Stamp grid background stamps; Verve "Better Together" dots
Dies: PTI "Tag Its #8"

Challenges:
Retro Rubber #80--dotty for you (I've had this stamp set for about 2 years)
YNS #83--sketch

Sweet Stampin'--add a tag
Pixie's Crafty Workshop #320--anything goes with snippets (every piece of paper/card stock on the card is a scrap except the largest panel that I did the stamping on)
heARTful Stamping--anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Monday--grunge it up
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--make your own background